Helping vulnerable people start and stay safe online

Introduction

Good Things Foundation is delighted to be working in partnership with TalkTalk to award a small amount of funding to a number of Online Centres across the UK to help them support the most vulnerable people in their local communities to help them build their digital capability with a core focus on staying safe online. This is an opportunity to propose and deliver an innovative idea around digital inclusion that you’ve not been able to try before.

The project

There are 12 grants of £2,000 available to apply for. Successful organisations will be required to:

Help vulnerable people build their digital confidence with a core focus on staying safe online

Engage a new audience group, focusing on the most vulnerable in society. This could include people who are homeless, families in poverty, and people with poor mental health, for example.

Enable new partnerships to be formed that extend your reach and impact into these audience groups.

Engage with 50 individuals over 5 months, to support all of them through the Staying Safe in a Digital Work course on Learn My Way.

Identify one beneficiary case study.

Produce a short report at the end of five months to outline your approach, what you learned and the impact that it has had.

Be prepared to participate in interviews with the Good Things Foundation Design and Innovation team.

As there are only a small number of grants available, it’s really important that organisations submit a clear proposal that sets out:

A robust model for delivering a new and innovative approach to digital inclusion activity

How you’d work with new audience groups or new partners

How the funding will be spent.

We are looking to fund one organisation in each region in England as well as one organisation in each of; Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Eligibility

To apply for this opportunity organisations need to be a member of the Online Centres Network.

Organisations already in receipt of funding from Good Things Foundation cannot apply. This includes any organisations from the same company.

If organisations are unsuccessful for funding in September, you are able to apply again in January.

Applications are welcomed from Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Application & Project time frames

Application launch

12 September 2017

Application deadline

29 September 2017

Assessment period

2 - 12 October 2017

Notification email

13 October 2017

Project delivery

1 November 2017 - 31 March 2018

There are two phases to the project and this is phase one. Applications will open again in January 2018 for phase two.

You can contact our Network Support Team at any time if you have any questions about the application process. They can be contacted on 0114 349 1666 or funding@goodthingsfoundation.org and are very happy to help.